The Market Report

  Moving right along to the east of Worcester! We saw Massachusetts Route 9 to the west of Worcester in Leicester and Spencer , and it actually continues west beyond the Amherst/Springfield area. But east of Worcester (where it's Belmont Street over Bell Hill ), it connects to Boston (route 9 ends at Massachusetts Ave near Northeastern University in Boston) via Framingham, which is roughly halfway between Worcester and Boston. For now, we'll be starting in Shrewsbury -- which is just across Lake Quinsigamond from Worcester -- then passing through Northborough, Westborough, and Southborough. We won't be in Framingham just yet, though. This is a fun group and it's a good transition to moving away from the immediate Worcester area into northern and eastern Worcester County. After passing through Shrewsbury and the Boroughs, we're headed north of Worcester!

Stop & Shop Opened:  late 1990s Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  940 W Boylston St, Greendale, Worcester, MA Photographed:  December 7, 2018 It's time for our final store tour in the city of Worcester! It's been close to three months of nothing but Worcester, and up next we'll be moving on to the northern and eastern suburbs we haven't seen yet. Speaking of the suburbs, we're practically out of the city here -- under a mile from the city limits and a good five miles from downtown. (To, say, a midwesterner, that might not sound very far. But here in New England, everything's a little smaller and closer together, so we're practically out in the country here even though it's still within the Worcester city limits.) The store is just under 70,000 square feet, and was built from the ground up in the late 1990s as a Stop & Shop. I would assume the store opened with this Super Stop & Shop decor , then was ...

Market 32 Opened: 2018 Owner:  Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants:  Price Chopper (mid-2000s - 2018) Cooperative:  none Location:  72 Pullman St, Greendale, Worcester, MA Photographed:  December 7, 2018; December 13, 2018; and July 13, 2019 We're getting down to the end here with our last few Worcester stores! Today's post is all the way near the northern city limits, just north of yesterday's former Fortin's Market (and likely a key factor in that store's demise). While that store closed at some point between 2000 and 2007, this store opened in the same time frame as a ground-up new build Price Chopper spanning around 62,000 square feet. (At the time, it was likely very similar to the slightly larger  Main & Cambridge store, which opened in 2001. Today, they barely look like they're owned by the same company.) Side note: while I'm not positive about this, it appears this location replaced an older one at 184 W Boylston Street in West Boylston, which...